Some people (including me) are using Knoppix when shopping for a new computer. If the hardware is working fine and is all detected by Knoppix, the computer should be ready to run any brand of Linux.
What a wonderful idea! I can see that this would make choosing a laptop much easier. No more guessing if the manufacturer added any weird proprietary stuff that Linux won't recognize. How many stores out there would let you do this though?
Mesa is very tightly bound to XFree86. Are there instructions out there for how to replace the Mesa that ships with XFree86 4.x with this new version? Does anyone know when XFree86 4.3 is due out and which Mesa version it will have?
I'd like to try this out and see if I can finally get some decent FPS on my Radeon 7000, but I don't want to sacrifice stability by messing with Mesa if I don't know what I'm doing.
A lot of space inside most cases is empty, mostly for airflow to keep the components cool. What if instead of using airflow, which is _very_ inefficient, the actual metal of the case was used? This would allow heat to be conducted out of the case by metal, which is an excellent conductor of heat and allow all that extra air space to be eliminated, producing a smaller case.
This would have the added benefit or reducing the need for fans and quieting the system down.
I use the Linus stock kernel on a _very_ similar setup (Duron 700, 384MB ram) and I don't have the problem you mention. One thing I've noticed is that with the Linus kernel, DMA is _never_ turned on by default, you must use hdparm explicitly at startup. Once you do that, skipping mp3s are a thing of the past.
Running the hdparm tests,
w/out DMA: 4.01MB/sec
with DMA: 34.96MB/sec
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What a wonderful idea! I can see that this would make choosing a laptop much easier. No more guessing if the manufacturer added any weird proprietary stuff that Linux won't recognize. How many stores out there would let you do this though?
Mesa is very tightly bound to XFree86. Are there instructions out there for how to replace the Mesa that ships with XFree86 4.x with this new version? Does anyone know when XFree86 4.3 is due out and which Mesa version it will have?
I'd like to try this out and see if I can finally get some decent FPS on my Radeon 7000, but I don't want to sacrifice stability by messing with Mesa if I don't know what I'm doing.
A lot of space inside most cases is empty, mostly for airflow to keep the components cool. What if instead of using airflow, which is _very_ inefficient, the actual metal of the case was used? This would allow heat to be conducted out of the case by metal, which is an excellent conductor of heat and allow all that extra air space to be eliminated, producing a smaller case.
This would have the added benefit or reducing the need for fans and quieting the system down.
Is this feasible?
I use the Linus stock kernel on a _very_ similar setup (Duron 700, 384MB ram) and I don't have the problem you mention. One thing I've noticed is that with the Linus kernel, DMA is _never_ turned on by default, you must use hdparm explicitly at startup. Once you do that, skipping mp3s are a thing of the past.
Running the hdparm tests,
w/out DMA: 4.01MB/sec
with DMA: 34.96MB/sec
Quite a change.
Craig Howard